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Subject: [emergency] RE: For those of you interested in broadcast andvoiceXML
Title: [emergency] RE: For those of you interested in
broadcast a
Thanks for the posting, Carl,
I am forwarding it to the wsrp-markup subcommittee since it is
relevant there, too. I will be checking this out in the next
days/week. Without going into details, it appears that while it is
debatable as to whether there is justice in the world, there sure as
bleep is some irony. Sorry to be so cryptic, but the joke's definitely
on me so I will avoid rubbing my own nose in it.
Thanks, again,
Rex
At 11:07 AM -0700 10/29/03, Carl Reed wrote:
PublicVoiceXML- European radio stations evaluating
VoiceXML
PublicVoiceXML (www.publicVoiceXML.org) is both, the name of a
VoiceXML 2.0 compliant browser and the name of a trial project with
European community radio stations, who are evaluating VoiceXML
technology for their day-to-day business. VoiceXML is a browser for
users, who call an interactive service via a (mobile) phone. It
follows the W3C VoiceXML specifications, which are supported by the
VoiceXML forum, an organisation, which has been set up by IEEE.
Standardisation efforts have been now taken over by W3C in the Voice
Browser Working group.
The project
consortium consists of:
� PUBLIC VOICE Lab as
the project initiator and co-ordinator together with
TEAM
TEICHENBERG, both located in Vienna
� a software team in
Chandigarh, India
� MTA SZTAKI in
Budapest, also hosting the W3C office for Eastern Europe
� Vienna's community
radio station Orange 94.0, who has contributed to the user
requirements phase and has been integrating PublicVoiceXML into their
content management and remote journalists management
system.
PublicVoiceXML is designed to be used by SMEs, and it works
nicely on low cost telephony hardware. The protocol handling is making
use of ISDN-CAPI, which works fine e.g. with the ISDN B1 active card
from AVM. Analogue lines are currently not supported, as too many
country/telco specific cases for DDI or disconnect handling would need
to be taken into account. The VoiceXML browser is written in C++ and
comes with a lot of comment lines (explaining each function) and nice
logging features.PublicVoiceXML supports all "must-have"
tags of the VoiceXML 2.0 specs (speech recognition is not yet
implemented). A pre-release running on Windows platforms has been
published on SourceForge in Dec. 2002 and a Linux version was made
available recently (https://sourceforge.net/projects/publicvoicexml/).
The
consortium has performed the W3C implementation report test (http://www.w3.org/Voice/2003/ir/voicexml20-ir.html) and is using the results for further improvements. Most of the
trial applications were built on a basic framework developed within
the project. This framework uses PHP as a middleware, the Postgres
database (through the PEAR database abstraction layer), and the Smarty
template engine for the generation of HTML and VoiceXML pages. This
results in clean PHP code, and the separation of presentation from
business logic. HTML templates can be edited by designers (not
necessarily having programming skills), and VoiceXML scripts can be
fine-tuned without touching the PHP code.
Trials at
community radio stations have been carried out and are well documented
on the project web site. Embedding basic speech recognition is already
scheduled and there is provision for telco-grade HW to be supported
in Software & Service
Technologies � Issue no. 4, October 2003, page 4 the near future. Exploitation of the project
results will be effected through providing support for customisation,
integration and double licensing to telecommunication
companies.
Tel: 510-849-2309
Fax: By Request
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